Take a bushwalk in the Australian Outback

Hyde Park Barracks, designed by convict, Francis Greenway, was completed in 1819. The barracks housed up to 600 male convicts until 1848. Today, this building, located in Sydney city, is a museum, depicting the lives of the convicts who once lived there.

The British colony of New South Wales was established in 1788 as a penal colony

A groundbreaking history of the colony of Sydney in its early years, from the sparkling harbour to the Cumberland Plain, from convicts to the city's political elite, from the impact of its geology to its economy.